Mortality in Female and Male French Olympians: A 1948-2013 Cohort Study Often one goes out of the intense physical stress should be harmful to harm. A French group has retrolled French participants in winter and summer Olympiads 1948-2010 with regard to their survival.
The mortality was 51% for women and 49% deeper in the men compared to the French population. Similar to the general population, the athletes also die of tumors and cardiovascular diseases. The whole compilation can be found under https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25813868/